The night was already very deep, the rain was falling, and the few pedestrians on the street were hurrying home, and there were very few taxis in this rainy night.

The "Lao Hu Family Store" at the mouth of Chiliu Alley, a headlight on the door illuminates the front of the door. The bored old bearded man sat under the tent in front of the door, staring at the TV set that could only receive two channels in a daze.

"Has the TV series started?" Lao Hu's daughter-in-law came out with steaming hot foot-washing water and sat on a stool beside Lao Hu.

"Hmm." Lao Hu responded, stretched out his hand to change to another channel, the TV series has just begun, and there are still a little snowflakes on the screen, and the picture is not very clear.

"You said it was raining so hard, why is it still so hot?" Lao Hu's daughter-in-law complained.

"Hmm." Lao Hu still responded with one word, seemingly absent-minded.

Although Lao Hu's daughter-in-law felt that Lao Hu was a little strange today, the TV series was obviously more attractive than Lao Hu sitting next to her, so she didn't ask any more questions and concentrated on watching TV.

Lao Hu is obviously not interested in this kind of TV series, but there is no way, there are only two channels, and there is no exchange. So stand up and get ready to go to the side to tidy up the shelves.

As soon as he got up, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a black shadow flashing on the other side of the alley, and Lao Hu looked in that direction for a while, but the street lamp couldn't shine on that position, so he could only vaguely look at the outline.

Lao Hu squinted his eyes and looked in that direction and asked Lao Hu's daughter-in-law: "Wife, have you seen it?" ”

Lao Hu's daughter-in-law watched the TV series and watched it so engrossively that she didn't hear Lao Hu speak at all.

Lao Hu looked at his daughter-in-law and sighed, looked back at the corner just now, there was nothing unusual, maybe he was dazzled, and then walked to the back room to move the box.

The rain fell all night and didn't stop until the next morning.

"Old Hu, old Hu, get up! Something is wrong! Lao Hu, who was still asleep, was woken up by Lao Hu's daughter-in-law.

Lao Hu looked at his daughter-in-law who looked panicked and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lao Hu's daughter-in-law seemed to be very nervous, and said: "Just now I went out to buy fritters, and I saw a lot of people around the alley, and several police cars also came. ”

Lao Hu chuckled in his heart after hearing this, and he didn't know why, but he immediately thought of the black shadow that flashed last night. Hurriedly asked his daughter-in-law: "What's wrong with that?" ”

"I don't know, I'll stand outside the circle and take a look and leave, it's weird and scary." When Lao Hu's daughter-in-law went out in the morning and saw such a picture, she only felt that something big had happened, and she was so frightened that she didn't even dare to ask and ran back.

Lao Hu felt that something was wrong with this, so he hurriedly got up and put on his clothes and prepared to go out to have a look.

Seeing this, Lao Hu's daughter-in-law said, "What are you doing? Why do you want to have a good time? It's not a good thing. ”

Lao Hu ignored her, put on cloth shoes and walked out.

"Hey, you're not eating?" Lao Hu's daughter-in-law still didn't get a response, pouted and began to make breakfast by herself.

From a distance, Lao Hu saw several people standing at the mouth of the alley, and there were three or four police cars parked behind the crowd, and he could see that there were uniformed policemen in the crowd questioning some people.

Lao Hu walked over, walked through a few people gathered in a pile and walked inside, the cordon had been pulled up, and several policemen were maintaining order at the scene, Lao Hu had bad eyes, squinting his eyes and looking in, I thought there would be the kind of corpse on the ground that was shown on TV or something, but there was nothing.

Lao Hu felt strange, turned his head and saw his neighbor Dabao, so he asked, "Dabao, what's wrong?" ”

Dabao saw Lao Hu asking, and said in surprise: "Uncle Hu, didn't you see it?" Look there! Dabao pointed in the direction of the side.

Lao Hu turned his head to look in the direction of Dabao's point, and suddenly gasped, in the direction of his side was the courtyard wall of a family, and on the wall was a female corpse in red, which was nailed to the wall with the thick and big iron nails that built the house, and it was two iron nails that were directly nailed to the wall through his eyes, and the death was extremely terrifying, and the pus and blood in his eyes flowed down, dripping on the ground along his face.

Lao Hu has lived for so long and has seen dead people, but this is the first time he has seen this kind of death, and he was shocked, although he didn't eat breakfast, he still felt that his stomach was turning over the river. Lao Hu couldn't bear it anymore, so he quickly squeezed out of the crowd and walked home.

"Ring, ring, ring..."In room 307 of an old house in the north of the city, the telephone rings non-stop.

At this time, a knock on the door sounded, accompanied by a high-pitched female voice scolding: "Lei Baoquan! Dead people?! Can't hear the phone ringing? The whole building listened to you early in the morning, so that no one could sleep?! A fat woman in pajamas shouted viciously, she was Lei Baoquan's neighbor Sister Wang, who was famous for her loud voice, and she usually had opinions about the sloppy Lei Baoquan.

The knock on the door stopped after a while, and Sister Wang returned to her room and closed the door with a "bang", muttering: "I know how to drink every day, and I don't have a time to wake up." ”

The phone continued, as if the person on the other end of the line was determined to get through.

Lei Baoquan closed his eyes and moved, reached out and groped for the phone, and picked it up.

"Hey, Baoquan, you can answer the phone, there's a case here, you hurry up and take a look!" The anxious voice on the other end of the line urged.

"Lao Huang, you've been fighting for half an hour, and I can't sleep well." Lei Baoquan said with a sigh.

Lao Huang's name is Huang Ran, the director of the local Public Security Bureau, and he is at the scene of the crime in Chiliu Alley at the moment.

"Baoquan, hurry up, this time it's a big case!" Lao Huang said.

Lei Baoquan said impatiently: "Every time you say it's a big case, I haven't seen how much money is spent on solving a big case." ”

"There are definitely a lot of them this time, this is the first time I've seen this kind of death, it's too miserable." Lao Huang sighed.

When Lei Baoquan heard this, he came to his senses, sat up all of a sudden, and asked, "Where is it?" ”

"Chiliu Alley, hurry up!"

Fifteen minutes later, Lei Baoquan drove to the scene of the crime. It was almost nine o'clock at this time, and there were more people around the alley than in the morning, discussing with each other about the tragedy that had happened around them. Lei Baoquan got out of the car and first looked around, which was his habit to pay attention to the surrounding environment and details as much as possible. This is a residential area on the edge of the city center, because it is an old residential area, so this large area is the old bungalows, the only bungalow residential area in the city, which is divided into several alleys, intersecting each other, and Chiliu Alley is one of them.

Lei Baoquan squeezed sideways into the crowd, and the young police officers who handled the case at the scene all knew Lei Baoquan, and when they saw him come in, they hurriedly shouted: "Uncle Quan." Lei Baoquan nodded, turned his head and caught a glimpse of the female corpse on the wall, her eyes were pierced by nails, and blood mixed with green pus flowed out of her eye sockets, which was disgusting.

Lei Baoquan also saw this kind of death for the first time, and the death was so terrifying, it can be seen that the perpetrator was extremely sick.

Lao Huang turned around and saw Lei Baoquan standing aside, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Baoquan, this time is amazing, it's the first time I've seen this, with my years of experience, this shouldn't be an ordinary homicide." ”

Lei Baoquan thought to himself, you still have many years of experience, and everyone can see it. He didn't answer, and approached the female corpse to observe.

Lao Huang was bored with himself, and raised his hand to call Luo Yiyang, who was taking pictures, to come over and explain the details to Lei Baoquan. Luo Yiyang is one of the forensic doctors in the team, the youngest in the forensic team, and a high-achieving student who just graduated last year.

"When?" Lei Baoquan asked while watching.

"The deceased died between 9 and 10 o'clock last night, and the direct cause of death was suffocation by someone by strangulation of the neck." Lei Baoquan flipped over the collar of the female corpse and did see a dark mark on her neck.

"The deceased had several wounds on her body, and it is likely that she had contact with the suspect in a fight or something like her before her death, and the suspect should have strangled the deceased to death before nailing her to the wall with an iron nail." Luo Yiyang continued.

"Any clues?" Lei Baoquan asked.

"Not yet, it rained too much last night, and the body was drenched in the rain all night, so it's not easy to collect evidence, and we're trying our best to search for it."

Lei Baoquan nodded, looking at the bloody eyes of the female corpse, it was disgusting, he turned his head and said to Lao Huang: "Almost get her down quickly, this person comes and goes, and the impact is not good." ”

Lao Huang agreed, asking his subordinates to hurry up and deal with the scene and evacuate the masses, Lei Baoquan turned around to leave, Lao Huang hurriedly stopped him: "Why are you going?" ”

"What else can I do when I get home?"

"Don't come back to the bureau with me? The facts of the case have not yet been discussed. Lao Huang dragged Lei Baoquan and said.

"Hey, I said don't come with me, I'm a jobless vagrant, unemployed middle-aged, not the little policeman who doesn't like to work for you." Lei Baoquan said angrily.

"Comrade Baoquan, I know that you are still unhappy about the last time you were suspended from probation, you have to treat this matter rationally, this is ultimately because you don't talk to people well when you handle the case, you don't do it well, and people come to me to complain, I am a small bureau chief, what can I do? I can only deal with it impartially. Lao Huang saw that this "trump card" was about to slip, so he quickly explained to himself.

"I'm a hot-tempered man, and you know it for more than 20 years. That grandson is underwhelmed, and I still tell you, goodbye him, I will still beat. Lei Baoquan obviously felt aggrieved by himself.

"That's right, Baoquan, you are an upright person, I know it in my heart, this matter depends on me, right? Didn't I tell you? When the time comes, I will immediately reinstate you. ”

"Lao Huang, it's been half a year, you said so half a year ago." Lei Baoquan waved his hand to leave.

"Look at you, you're in a hurry, half a year is not a long time, besides, you haven't been able to come and go freely in the bureau during this time, it's no different from before." Lao Huang accompanied a wrinkled smile.

"That's because you're still pointing at me when you're handling the case, or you kicked me earlier."

"Comrade Baoquan, can't our decades-long relationship withstand this scrutiny?" Lao Huang glanced back at the female corpse on the wall, and said, "Besides, this case is definitely not simple, we need you, don't you want to investigate it yourself?" ”

Lao Huang's words hooked Lei Baoquan's nerves again, he was indeed very interested in this case, anyway, he was now on his salary, and his schedule was free, and he had nothing to complain about. After thinking about it, he pouted and walked out.

Lao Huang hurriedly asked, "Is it coming or not?" ”

"I'll go to the bureau tomorrow morning." Lei Baoquan said without looking back.

Lao Huang is down-to-earth, Lei Baoquan is the most powerful criminal investigation expert under his hands, how many big and small cases have been solved, he will definitely be able to solve everything.